Originally published July 24 2009
Air Pollution Linked to Low IQ in Children
by Kim Evans
(NaturalNews) When many doctors downplay the role of toxicity in the body and underestimate the damage it causes, it's nice to see research pointing to these effects. Researchers recently found that mothers who breathe in more polluted air during their pregnancy were more apt to have children with lower IQs.
Two hundred and forty nine children were studied and the IQ difference between the high pollution group and the low pollution group was about four to five points. Four to five points doesn't sound like much, but when you understand that only thirty points marks the difference between genius and average, you can understand the significance.
Patrick Breysse, an environmental health specialist at Johns Hopkins' school of public health, thinks that air quality might be part of the reason that wealthier children tend to do better in school than children from poorer neighborhoods, as poorer families tend to live in more polluted areas.
It's interesting though that only air pollution was accounted for in this study. It'd be curious to see the results if they accounted for things like: eating organic, natural foods verses pesticide-laced, processed foods or like drinking nutrient-rich fruit and vegetable juices instead of coffee or coke. While few are immune from such habits, the latter are also more likely to be consumed regularly in low income areas.
The larger picture implication is that the chemical toxins that pollute our environment also pollute our bodies, and make us at least a little mentally slower. Pesticides and chemicals in processed foods and soft drinks also qualify as chemical toxins.
Wouldn't it be interesting if most of the population would actually rank at or near the genius level, if not for the consistent exposure to chemicals and toxins of all sorts while in the womb and throughout life?
If air pollution accounts for four to five points, it'd be easy to see where the lack of pesticides and chemical-ridden processed foods would easily add on another five or possibly ten points. The absence of mercury, a toxin known to affect the brain and found in vaccines and teeth fillings, could easily tack on another five points too. The list of known poisons that today's humans regularly put in and on their bodies is astounding and reducing them would be fairly simple if we made some concerted efforts.
Even physicians are catching on and understanding that what they thought was harmless, really is not.
Dr. Michael Msall, a University of Chicago pediatrician, said, "We are learning more and more about low-dose exposure and how things we take for granted may not be a free ride."
A lower IQ wasn't the only thing researchers found connected with air pollution. In previous research, the same researchers found that exposure to air pollution while in the womb was associated with genetic abnormalities that may increase the risk for cancer, a smaller newborn head size and even reduced birth weight. The researchers also linked air pollution with developmental delays at age three and asthma in children.
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090720/ap_on_he...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/20/he...
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execs...
About the author
Kim Evans is a natural health writer and author of Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse. Cleaning Up! offers deep cleansing and using methods in this book, people have gotten rid of dozens of different types of health problems, as well as just losing excess weight, thinking more clearly, and feeling better.
Kim's next book chronicles events in her life that happen to match patterns in the Bible. She's also found three places in the Bible that tell us its about these patterns and even asking you to match them.
Here's a little from the upcoming book...
In Isaiah 22:20, it says, "And it must occur in that day that I will call my servant, namely Eliakim." But, because these prophecies are cryptic and they aren't meant to be understood until they are understood, it's only the last three letters.
A few lines later, it says, "From the land of Kittim it has been revealed to them."
Here, you just take out any three middle letters, and again, it's the name of the person bringing you this message, or the sacred secret of the prophecy. Actually, if you take those two passages, Kim is about the only name you can get from both of them.
In Numbers 1:1 � 1:18, it's talking about "the family" and mentions Pagiel. It also twice mentions February 1st, (Kim's birthday) and then says that the youngest is 20 years old. Kim's little sister Paige is currently 20 years old.
In Chronicles 1 11:20 it mentions the brother of Joab and then in the same sentence uses the word brandishing. Kim's middle name is Jo and her older sister's name is Brandi. There are other patterns to her sisters too but these sort of mention them by name.
Of course, it helps if you know that there is a magical spiritual reality available that comes deep cleansing and often major dietary upgrades. It's also why Jesus was teaching the same thing, if you find his teachings in the Essene Gospel of Peace. In this text, he even says things like, "You'll never see the father unless you clean your colon." But, this is paraphrased...
In the Bible Jesus says things more like, happy are those who wash their robes, as they can enter the tree of life. The tree of life is elsewhere explained as God's paradise. He also said, first clean the inside of the cup and then the outside will also be clean.
Kim's book Cleaning Up! is here http://www.cleaningupcleanse.com. You can also preorder The Sacred Prophecies Have Been Fulfilled
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